February 4, 2009 - So with EA's newfound admiration for Nintendo's console, we thought we would take a look to see just how well the publisher's Wii games performed last year. In total, EA delivered 22 games on the Wii in 2008, including Rock Band which is a partnership with MTV Games. Some were clear successes on the system, like Rock Band and Madden NFL 09. Others didn't fare so well.

December 9, 2008 - Welcome to IGN's Sports Year in Review. Over the next several pages we'll be going over everything pertinent to the genre, including the current state of sports videogames, the top sports games of the year, the biggest sports and sports videogame events of the year and much, much more. We'll also take a look ahead to 2009 and talk about some of the games we're most eagerly anticipating and provide you with some useful tips to help you dominate your favorite games.

October 30, 2008 - For Wii, there area few game types out there that seem absolutely ideal with motion control. Swinging a bat, racquet, or golf club is an obvious first revelation for players that get their hands on the unique controller, but ironically enough it's the world of soccer that really proves to be a huge selling point on Nintendo's system. FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer are going head to head on a yearly basis (last year launching right on top of each other, while this year has FIFA first out the gate, and Pro Evo waiting until early 09), and both on a mission to trump the other. This, of course, is always a battle across every system, but with Wii being the top selling console out there, and with as much innovation in the world of soccer happening on the system, we expect this rivalry to get stronger as the seasons pass. After putting some serious time into FIFA 09 from EA though, we again have to give top props to its competitor as far as the system's best soccer offering, as FIFA 09 is starting to adopt the pointer control and motion scheme originally set up in last year's Pro Evo soccer, but it leaves something to be desired; the feeling of full-team manipulation.

September 19, 2008 - Summer's end is upon us again, as once more we look to the turning colors of leaves in trees that herald the coming of Fall. And then we quickly turn around, go back inside and turn on our video game systems -- because there's no time to waste outdoors when we're in the most robust new release season of the year.

August 15, 2008 - Formed in 1998 around the nucleus of Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, Ladytron, which also features Mira Aroyo and Helena Marnie, have been tweaking the basic formula of electronic pop for more than a decade now.

August 14, 2008 - As a continuation of the company's "everyone can play" initiative, Electronic Arts is giving its FIFA series the All-Play branding on the Nintendo Wii. EA had a playable version of the Wii version at its event this afternoon where we could play a few minutes of footy on the system.

August 5, 2008 - IGN can reveal today that the cover of this year's upcoming FIFA 09 in North America will, much like last year, include three players. Two of the three cover athletes are the same as last year: Ronaldinho, newly of AC Milan, and Guillermo Ochoa, the Mexican international keeper who plays for Club America.

July 9, 2008 - One of our most anticipated titles at next week's E3 is EA's fitness game, tentatively titled EA Fit. We know that the game will be different stylistically from Wii Fit, with a focus on techniques more familiar to Western cultures. Furthermore, EA Sports president Peter Moore said, "…we're working on stuff, trying to work out how we can use EA Sports applications there."
That perked our ears up just a little bit.

July 1, 2008 - Electronic Arts Inc. today revealed it has created platform specific experiences for its best-selling* FIFA Soccer 09 franchise from EA SPORTS. FIFA Soccer 09 has been designed and customized to deliver a unique gameplay experience that takes advantage of the hardware specifications of each available platform— the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, Wii home video game system, PC, PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo DS, PSP system and mobile—when it is released worldwide this autumn.

June 30, 2008 - When Konami released Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 earlier this year for Wii, the game sent a serious wake-up call to sports teams as to what exactly should be done on Wii. Madden was going strong at the time, doing some simple gesture work and entertaining "Wii-specific" gameplay, but strangely enough after PES's IR-based gameplay – which allowed players to not only pass anywhere on screen with the pointer, but also grab and pull teammates anywhere on the field to "conduct" massive, team-based offense for the first time – Madden came out with the Call Your Shot mode, which was essentially the same concept in a football game.

June 26, 2008 - EA Sports revealed the full roster of its "All-Play" line of games for the Wii today, with five titles being given specific features and gameplay mechanics in their '09 iterations for the console.